M+ presents a new work by LuYang, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary new media art. The exhibition features DOKU The Illusion, the fourth chapter in the artist’s ongoing DOKU series. The series centres on a genderless digital avatar moving across realms of consciousness, reincarnation, and technological transformation.

Drawing on Buddhist cosmology, gaming culture, computer animation, motion capture, and popular media, LuYang creates immersive worlds in which the boundaries between self and avatar, consciousness and illusion, and life and simulation dissolve. In DOKU The Illusion, the artist continues to explore the constructed nature of reality through a highly charged visual and sonic environment. The work is presented as a spatial experience in The Studio, making full use of the site’s cavernous scale and architectural openness.